It looks picturesque, what is missing from this picture is a freezing wind and a grumpy sculptor.
I cant remember it being so cold for so long at the workshop, more snow again this week. I like to have the doors open to blow the dust out so heating it is almost impossible. Looking forward to the Spring and doing a bit of chiseling outside again. Luckilly I have no courses planned until April. There are still spaces on the May course, more details can be found on www.chisel-it.co.uk or on www.artsbowl.com
I have been at Hall farm since leaving Staunton Harold Craft Centre in 2002. I found that I was making increasingly larger work and therefore using more and more power tools – not great when the general punblic are wandering through your workshop! The workshop at Hall Farm was built around me as I was carving, it has massive doors for moving boulders (then finished sculptures) in and out and is in a lovely location just iutside of Ashby de la Zouch. Unfortunately it is quite exposed and tends to have its own micro climate, meaning weather like that in the picture is more common than I would like.